Should Airbnb guests do chores and house cleaning?
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You can never really predict humans, as some Airbnb hosts prefer guests to leave things as they are, says the writer.
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Emma Jacobs
Woe betide those who require guests to strip the bed and clean the kitchen.
History turns on small twists of fate. If Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s car had driven the other way, would World War I have been averted? So too for Airbnb’s chore war. Who could have predicted that the letting platform’s rule update would trigger such a fallout?